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Measurement: What SaaS platform builders need to know to prepare for growth, Part 3

CloudGeometry

First, SaaS is a business strategy, not a technology strategy. The challenge is to build common ground between business and architecture so as to translate business assumptions into critical technical solution inputs. SaaS business metrics are not hard to find ; we won’t analyze them in-depth here.

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The SaaS Balancing Act: Always Be Modernizing

CloudGeometry

Finally, you need to do it quickly, because if you’re not competitive, your customers can and will take their business elsewhere. Optimize cloud economics and drive Business Goals. Customers may tell you what they don’t like, but they can’t always tell you how to fix it (nor would you ask them).

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Managing high availability at Intercom

Intercom, Inc.

To achieve our mission of making internet business personal and scaling to support larger and larger customers, we have been continually, thoughtfully, and carefully investing in our people, systems, and processes to maintain Intercom’s high standards of availability. The foundation of our operational health is availability.

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Contentful Announces $33.5 Million in Series D Funding to Deliver Content Infrastructure for the Modern Technology Stack

The SaaS Garage

Million in Series D Funding to Deliver Content Infrastructure for the Modern Technology Stack December 5, 2018 SAN FRANCISCO & BERLIN–( BUSINESS WIRE )– Contentful , the leading content infrastructure for digital teams, today announced $33.5 Contentful Announces $33.5 million in Series D equity funding.

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11 proven, DevOps best-practices for continuous improvement

Audacix

You'll need to ensure that your people understand that DevOps is a cultural revolution wherein the development and operations teams are brought together to build a powerful and agile software delivery system. State Of DevOps Report 2018 Communication is the key to solving most business challenges.

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What Are SaaS Products + 22 Successful SaaS Companies to Follow

User Pilot

This article will look at the most successful SaaS companies, so you can decide if you want to invest in them for your business. TL;DR A SaaS product delivers software remotely, reducing the need for local installation, maintenance, and updates. What are the benefits of the SaaS model?

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Beyond Frankencloud: living with your once and future SaaS architecture

CloudGeometry

When business-critical applications move out of the data center with “lift and shift”. Well-Architected Framework scorecard : One of the great advantages AWS has over other cloud providers is what it learns from the Amazon consumer eCommerce business. When you treat your cloud provider as a fractional colo.